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From August 3, 2021: Empire Follows Art

William Blake

William Blake "Job's Evil Dream" Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

If anyone had been paying attention to how badly elitist mismanagement was damaging art for the last hundred years or so, we might have been better prepared to counter all the other forms of carnage they are now unleashing. What they did to the art world has become their default operating system across the board.

"Empire follows art and not vice versa," warned the great English artist William Blake. Think of empire in this context not as a geographical entity, but more as the various ideas and modes unified under a belief system, so ingrained we largely aren't even aware of it.

Read the whole article here: THE MASCULINIST - Empire Follows Art

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